Gallery Room 10 - Antarctica

In 2003 Helen Sanderson went to Antarctica on the ship “Polar Pioneer” with Aurora Expeditions owned by Greg Mortimer, the first Australian to climb Mt Everest.

Helen drew each day….weather on the Drake Passage permitting! The crossings were mostly very rough. She kept a daily drawn journal. The bridge on the ship was always open to passengers, and Helen mostly drew from that vantage point. She used the concertina book format and scrolls to draw long lengths of coastline as the ship sailed past. She also took thousands of digital images.

The following images are part of the Antarctica series.

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	First Light 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas First sight of land in Antarctica at dawn.
	A Fresh New Day 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas Tracts of white ice and rocky outcrops with misty clouds
	Penguins I 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas King Penguins congregating in numbers .
	Penguins III 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas Wildlife in Antarctica are trusting of tourists and come quite close.
	Lost 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas Interesting rock patterns underfoot, with the odd feather.
	Lemair Channel I 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas Towering rocky mountains above the Lemair Channel
	Glacial Form 35.5 x 45.5cm	oil on canvas Glaciers and Ice Bergs were varied and spectacular
	Deception Island 1.5 x 1.2 meters	Acrylic on canvas Entrance to the bay is deceptively camouflaged, in old whaling site. Vast rusted oil storage tanks litter the site.
	70º of Latitude 1.8 x 1.3 meters	Acrylic on canvas The icy landscape below the 70th parallel, melding into the image of a woman's dress.
	Snow Storm on the Polar Pioneer 1.3 x 1.8 meters	Acrylic on canvas Wild snow storm at night produced a wonderful flickering of flurried lights on inky ocean.
	Polar Pioneering 1.8 x 1.3 meters	Acrylic on canvas Reminiscent of mapping and portholes, and navigational devises onboard ship.
	Icy Latitude 1.5 x 1.2 meters	Acrylic on canvas Tracking safe passage through the Drake Passage, three descending circles of the navigational devises marking latitude and longitude etc
	Her Journey 1.5 x 1.2 meters Acrylic on canvas	Yarn told of one nation sending women to Antarctica hoping for a native born Antarctican to strengthen their claims if Antarctica Treaty renewal fails. Future mineral wealth the goal, what risk to the mother & child.
	Antarctic Journey Artist's book - 39 x 29 x 22mm in a box - 76 x 42 x 41mm	ink and pastel on cotton paper; coptic binding; linen & leather; greyboard with kozo papers + stone (painted- not allowed to remove stones from Antarctica)
	Artists Book 1 - *Antarctica & Surrounds* 190 mm high x 71 mm wide x 21 mm deep Cotton papers, ink and watercolour Coptic binding .. book made by the artist	Landscape length pages stitched to create panorama images….continuous drawings of the shoreline drawn on the bridge of the Polar Pioneer while sailing through the Antarctic Peninsula.
	Artists Book 2 - *Antarctica & the Surrounding Islands* 95 mm high x 75 mm wide x 50 mm deep Cotton papers, fibre reactive dye, gesso, ink, acrylic paint, watercolour Coptic binding .. book made by the artist	Daily drawn journal during the trip on the ship Polar Pioneer March 2003. Visually documents places and events on the journey.






	Artists Book 3 - *The indelible marks of the waters of Antarctica* 176 mm high x 176 mm wide x 32 mm deep Digital imagery and text Perfect binding………book made by the artist	This work incorporates digital photographs, imagery that has been manipulated, text from our writing and ships daily journal. Printed on an Epson printer with a range of commercial and transparent papers.


	Artists Book 4 - *King Harkon Sound – latitude 54◦ 10 mins south, longitude 37◦ 25 mins west* Moleskine concertina book 142mm high x 93 mm wide x 13 mm deep Ink	Continuous drawing of King Harkon Sound done on the bridge of the Polar Pioneer.
	Artists Book 5 - *Layers of Antarctica* Layered manipulated digital imagery printed on coated Hahnamuhler papers 135 mm high x 260mm wide x 23mm deep Book made by the artist Stitched binding over tapes	Book looking at the relationship between the marks of man and the pristine environment of Antarctica


	Artists Book 6 - *Icebergs at South Orkney Islands* Paper Scroll – 5 ½” x 21” Ink	Continuous ice berg and shoreline drawing on long scroll length of paper, drawn on the bridge of the Polar Pioneer.

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